Swiss women with an average age of 73 claim their country is not doing enough against heat waves. The European Court of Human Rights agreed with them by determining that the Swiss Government fails to meet its own greenhouse emissions reduction targets.

“It is a huge victory that we did not expect and it is for the planet and for older women. We have achieved that climate protection is considered a human right,” Rosmarie Wydler-Wälti, co-president of the association, happily describes. The association was founded in August 2016 and currently there are 2,600 members, all women and all over 64 years of age.. Younger women and men, even if they do not have Swiss nationality, have the door open, but they can only register as supporters. The first time the association appeared simply simply took simply the name ‘Older Women for Climate’. The project started from Greenpeace and five women who didn’t even know each other started. Greenpeace lawyers documented that intense and frequent heat waves affect older people more.